Formulas · Warm the Interior 溫裏 · Jesaeng (濟生)

Overcome Dampness Decoction

Seungseup-tang

한글 승습탕 · Pinyin Sheng Shi Tang

勝濕湯

Composition 構成

Baekchul Bai Zhu
白朮 백출 · White Atractylodes

12 g
Chief 君
Buja Fu Zi
附子 부자 · Prepared Aconite

3 g
Chief 君

blast-fried (炮) · toxic
Insam Ren Shen
人蔘 인삼 · Ginseng

3 g
Deputy 臣
Geongang Gan Jiang
乾薑 건강 · Dried Ginger

3 g
Deputy 臣
Baekbokryeong Fu Ling
白茯苓 백복령 · Poria (white)

3 g
Deputy 臣
Baekjakyak Bai Shao
白芍藥 백작약 · White Peony

3 g
Assistant 佐
Gyeji Gui Zhi
桂枝 계지 · Cinnamon Twig

3 g
Assistant 佐
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

10 g
Envoy 使
Daejo Da Zao
大棗 대조 · Jujube

8 g
Envoy 使
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

3 g
Envoy 使

Total 51 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Warms the centre and overcomes damp contracted from wet ground
Checks diarrhoea

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Sitting or lying on damp ground
or struck by rain and dew
with the body heavy
the legs weak and the stool loose

Biomedical correlates

Diarrhoea with heaviness and weakness after cold exposure

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治坐臥濕地, 或雨露所襲, 身重脚弱, 大便泄瀉. 白朮三錢, 人參ㆍ乾薑ㆍ白芍藥ㆍ附子(炮)ㆍ桂枝ㆍ白茯苓ㆍ甘草各七分半. 右剉, 作一貼, 入薑五棗二, 水煎服. 《濟生》

Translation

Treats sitting or lying on damp ground, or being struck by rain and dew, with the body heavy, the legs weak and the stool loose. White atractylodes 3 don; ginseng, dry ginger, white peony, aconite (blast-fried), cinnamon twig, white poria and licorice 7.5 pun each. Cut up, make one packet, add 5 slices of ginger and 2 jujubes, decoct in water and take. — Jesaeng 濟生 (Donguibogam · Seup)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Ijung-tang with aconite, cinnamon twig, poria and peony added — a warming formula for damp contracted from below rather than a drying one. White atractylodes at three don against seven and a half pun of everything else is the proportion that defines it. The section at 3.8.1 distinguishes damp struck from outside, as here, from damp generated within by raw and cold food and by drink; the formulas differ accordingly. **Contains aconite, which is toxic even when blast-fried. Not suitable for self-administration.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.